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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: no_water_no_wet on March 27, 2004, 09:25:45 pm

Title: best carpet cleaner used by hand
Post by: no_water_no_wet on March 27, 2004, 09:25:45 pm

would somebody like to advise me on what they think is the best carpet cleaner for car carpets when hand cleaned not using a machine

thanks
Lyn

Title: Re: best carpet cleaner used by hand
Post by: Len Gribble on March 27, 2004, 10:45:18 pm

Lyn

No_ water_no_wet, but wait till you have to clean split milk, coke etc ;D

Len

Title: Re: best carpet cleaner used by hand
Post by: Dave_Lee on March 27, 2004, 11:53:53 pm

Lyn,
I know its not the answer you are after, but if theres no machine - its not, the best clean.
Dave.

Title: Re: best carpet cleaner used by hand
Post by: Derek on March 28, 2004, 11:57:18 am

Lyn

Many years ago part of my business was vehicle valeting and carpets were only just becoming the norm in the vehicles.
We, in the initial stages, used a crystalising shampoo by hand which when dry we vacuumed off...the results were pretty good. If we had a milk, coke spillage as has been suggested we pulled the carpet out of the vehicle and flood washed it.
The carpets in vehicles are fitted more securely these days and some form of rinsing machine (Extraction) is useful

Regards
Derek  

Title: Re: best carpet cleaner used by hand
Post by: stevey331 on March 28, 2004, 12:04:38 pm

i use to use carpet form cleaner!!

steve331

Title: Re: best carpet cleaner used by hand
Post by: cleanmac on April 04, 2004, 12:30:37 am

Remove all the dry dirt ( no short cuts here)
equipment req.,steel crevice tool for your vac,hardbrush,dogy brush and a brush comb (chemspec cat. page 22) access to an airline, with a blower nozzle
will help a lot on the bad cars
Use all these tools in combination as needed,ie vac ,brush,vac,comb,vac ,blow,vac , etc.  

Carpets still looks dirty?
Black,gray and midgray carpets use blackdye,as supplied by autosmart or autoglym (both on the web)
Any other colour use carbrite aerosols (01733 384150)

But why not hwe after you removed the dry dirt properly?
What are you going to do with the seats?